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Iowa

Libertarian Thomas Laehn says end federal tax credits for pipelines

  • Robin Opsahl

Thomas Laehn, the Libertarian running for Iowa’s U.S. Senate seat, said Saturday at the Iowa State Fair he would eliminate federal tax incentives for carbon dioxide sequestration and production of low-carbon fuels if elected. Carbon sequestration pipeline projects have been a major point of contention in Iowa for years. They’ve also been a source of […]

Louisiana

Carbon sequestration might expand in Cameron Parish

  • Natalie McLendon, The Current

The permit would allow Lake Charles-based Gulf Coast Sequestration to inject and sequester up to 19 million metric tons of CO2 into two wells, 8,900 to 10,500 feet below ground level, over a 30-year period.

Oregon

Climate Commission proposes bigger goals for storing planet-warming gas in Oregon lands, waters

  • Alex Baumhardt

As the federal government pushes for more logging and grazing on Oregon’s lands, state climate commissioners are calling for more ambitious goals to protect the state’s land and water so they can capture carbon dioxide. The 13 voting members of the governor-appointed Oregon Climate Action Commission last week called to double goals they set just […]